Home Repair

Practical guides to fix what’s broken in your home — plumbing, wiring, walls, doors, and the small things that go wrong.

What We Quietly Stopped Doing for Ourselves (And What It’s Cost the Modern Family)

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A 30-year financial accounting of the small household tasks families used to handle themselves — and the bill we’ve been quietly paying ever since we stopped. There’s a quiet number that almost no family calculates, even though it lives in their bank statements every year. If you took an average middle-class household and added up … Read more

5 Basic Home Repairs Every Homeowner Should Know

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The five small skills that, between them, handle most of the calls a typical homeowner makes to a handyman every year. Each takes under an hour to learn and saves hundreds of dollars over the life of a house. There’s a quiet skill gap in American homeownership that doesn’t get discussed enough. A generation ago, … Read more